We're in a world of ice. Just ice. It's moving. It's unpredictable.
It's cold. Very cold. Minus 45 degrees centigrade. We know that's coming our way.
With wind, the effective temperatures can drop to minus 75 degrees centigrade.
This is our work. This is what we do.
The Katnion Arctic Survey in 2010 is an international pioneering scientific expedition
that's involving polar scientists and polar explorers working together to investigate
the changing artificial environment. There are two areas of research. The first is building on
the sea ice thickness work that we did last year and taking another series of measurements
of the things of the ice which is information very much requested by the scientific community.
The main focus of our research is going to be on ocean acidification. This is an emerging global
issue and we're going to be taking the first measurements of the waters of the Arctic Ocean
since the 1980s. Now the Arctic is particularly vulnerable to the process of acidifying water
and it also acts as an important early warning system for what we may see stuff to emerge in
oceans around the world.
We have scientists operating from a secure camp on the edge of the Arctic Ocean and making forays
out onto the sea ice to conduct their experiments and we also have a team of surface explorers
who are making a much longer journey and conducting a survey involving all sorts of
measurements and observations far out in the Arctic Ocean. Our view is that everyone has a
right to understand what is happening in an area of the world that is so inhospitable that very
few people ever experience it but the effects of what is going on up there are going to affect
everyone and we want to play our part in helping people understand so that they can make informed
decisions in their own lives.
